<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bimetalism</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ben Bulger was a silver man,<br>Though not a mine had he:<br>He thought it were a noble plan<br>To make the coinage free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There hain't for years been sech a time,'<br>Said Ben to his bull pup,<br>'For biz-the country's broke and I'm<br>The hardest kind of up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The paper says that that's because<br>The silver coins is sea'ce,<br>And that the chaps which makes the laws<br>Puts gold ones in their place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They says them nations always be<br>Most prosperatin' where<br>The wolume of the currency<br>Ain't so disgustin' rare.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His dog, which hadn't breakfasted,<br>Dissented from his view,<br>And wished that he could swell, instead,<br>The volume of cold stew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nobody'd put me up,' said Ben,<br>'With patriot galoots<br>Which benefits their feller men<br>By playin' warious roots;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But havin' all the tools about,<br>I'm goin' to commence<br>A-turnin' silver dollars out<br>Wuth eighty-seven cents.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The feller takin' 'em can't whine:<br>(No more, likewise, can I):<br>They're better than the genooine,<br>Which mostly satisfy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It's only makin' coinage free,<br>And mebby might augment<br>The wolume of the currency<br>A noomerous per cent.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't quite see his error nor<br>Malevolence prepense,<br>But fifteen years they gave him for<br>That technical offense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342744" data-title="Bimetalism de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Ben Bulger was a silver man, Though not a mine had he: He thought it were a noble plan To make the coinage free. 'There hain't for years been sech a time,' Said Ben to his bull pup, 'For biz-the country's broke and I'm The hardest kind of up. 'T..."></div> </div> </div>

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